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12-26-10 | 09:21 AM

#49

Standalone

The Drive Side is Within

Joined: Dec 2007

Posts: 3,344

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From: New Haven, CT, USA

Bikes: Road, Cargo, Tandem, Etc.

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Originally Posted by Sixty Fiver

This is Christmas... well done.

Thanks. Tonight's blizzard will be the first time I will EVER be disappointed to see snow. I definitely wanted to get a good 15 or 20 in with Dad before they head back to Maryland. There's a raw east wind already kicking up pretty fiercely off the sound...

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Originally Posted by blickblocks

Beautiful build OP!

Thank you. The front wheel is actually from my mother's Orange '73 Atala, the bike I took on MS150's when I was 12 and 13. (so 27" front w/a 700C rear. Eventually the front might get a dyno 700C) The most beautiful part about it to me is its connection to my first years of riding.

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Originally Posted by happypills

Now that's heartwarming.

On another note is that quill stem by AVA? Because it looks just like the stems that sheldon brown warns about.
Not trying to cramp the occasion but safety is always first.

The stem does look quite similar-- thanks for the heads up. But as I recall it says something cipielli or some thing. Definitely italian. The shop did the wrap for me. I'd hate to have to try and re-do it myself!

edit: stem is carinelli, botteccia's house brand/maker. Came off a dumpster dive botteccia. Liked it better than the one that was on my mother's Atala.

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Last edited by Standalone; 12-26-10 at 01:41 PM.

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